The cover of the guidebook
In July 1998, Nickelodeon released the Nickelodeon Logo Logic Book, a specialized guidebook exclusively provided to new employees hired at Nickelodeon Animation Studios in Burbank, California between 1998 and 2000. This manual served as an internal reference tool, meticulously detailing the design principles behind the network’s iconic logos—covering essential elements such as typeface, geometric shapes, color palettes, and branding usage guidelines. Affixed to the back cover was a companion CD-ROM titled Nickelodeon: Encyclopedia of Logos, which contained .AI vector assets of the logos. There was also a comprehensive reel of broadcast logos featuring the animated versions of the logos. However, due to the lack of formal archival efforts, most of these animations remain lost because the full reel is lost media, meaning no footage has surfaced publicly.